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Irish music, books, Boston things and other things
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It is currently 'packs of coyotes walking across the Charles River' cold outside.
February 2, 2026 at 7:36 PM
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Today, St Brigid’s Day, marks three years since Ireland’s first public holiday named after a woman. It’s a chance to celebrate the vital role women play in Irish culture and history.

Discover St Brigid's story on the @dib.ie https://www.dib.ie/biography/brigit-brighid-brid-bride-bridget-a0961.
February 1, 2026 at 9:59 AM
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Lila Iké's full-length debut album, Treasure Self Love, has been nominated for a Grammy. Iké spoke to All Things Considered about being one of the only women ever to receive a nomination for best reggae album. n.pr/4ao0eeH
Lila Iké learned what "self-love" means with her Grammy-nominated album
Lila Iké's full-length debut album, Treasure Self Love, has been nominated for a Grammy. Iké spoke to All Things Considered about being one of the only women ever to receive a nomination for best reggae album.
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January 30, 2026 at 9:27 PM
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Good Night Southie! - Sunset from Dorchester Heights!
January 26, 2026 at 11:25 PM
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praddenkeefe.bsky.social
On the counterproductivity of tear gas (and authoritarian brutality in general) from my book Say Nothing.
January 26, 2026 at 1:07 AM
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irishtimes.com
An Poc ar Buille singer Sean Ó Sé dies, aged 89
An Poc ar Buille singer Sean Ó Sé dies, aged 89
Taoiseach pays tribute to iconic figure of Irish education, culture and traditional music
www.irishtimes.com
January 13, 2026 at 8:48 PM
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joycemillman.bsky.social
If you grew up listening to Boston’s WBCN in the ‘60’s, you’ll be picking up what I’m putting down: The Woofa Goofa is back on the air!

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Peter Wolf WUMB Friday Night Fish Fry Live Broadcast – WUMB Radio
The legendary Peter Wolf gets behind the mic and takes over the WUMB airwaves for an unpredictable two hours, spinning music straight from his personal collection of Vinyl LPs, 45s, and CDs on Friday Night, January 30th, from 8pm-10pm.  Peter will be LIVE on the air so expect high-energy classics, surprise spins, stories and maybe...
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January 12, 2026 at 7:55 PM
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cathybrown746.bsky.social
Today on 746 Books I'm looking forward to all the great fiction coming in 2026 from Irish authors!

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January 8, 2026 at 6:01 PM
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Last minute dressing room rehearsal with the amazing Louise Mulcahy before the Late Late Show kicked off!! 🤩

#bothyband #irishmusic #fiddle #flute #livemusic #tv The Late Late Show TradFest Louise Mulcahy
January 11, 2026 at 8:28 PM
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burnslibrary.bsky.social
#otd in 1798, the Massachusetts State House was dedicated. From its earliest days, the building's dome was an attraction for visitors to Boston. Visitors who climbed to the dome for a birds eye view of Boston used guides like this 1851 booklet to identify buildings and landmarks.
title page of an 1850 pamphlet reading "Guidebook for Strangers Visiting the Cupola of the State House in Boston Intended to enable those not acquainted with the localities, the better to find the principal objects that are in sight" 1851 map of Boston on blue paper
January 11, 2026 at 3:02 PM
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Tapping the sign
portersqbooks.bsky.social Porter Square Books in Cambridge & Boston @portersqbooks.bsky.social · 27d
Your friendly independent bookstore breaking into your timeline to tell you to take a couple hours this weekend, put your phone in like, a box, or something & read a book. All of this <waves hand> will be here when you come back.
January 10, 2026 at 3:26 PM
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kennysbookshop.bsky.social
Nollaig na mBan Shona daoibh go léir, Happy Women's Christmas - a great day to celebrate and recognise all Irish women writers and their contributions. We are so lucky to have them all!
Books by Irish women writers
January 6, 2026 at 11:53 AM
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gummyarts.bsky.social
Shane MacGowan and Kirsty MacColl, 1987 Topps style, “Fairytale of New York” edition
Colored-pencil card drawings of Shane MacGowan and Kirsty MacColl, with Christmas tree in background
December 25, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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magicbeans.bsky.social
I would lose my mind dancing to this version of his song in my room when I was 8: youtu.be/nNOfFaTokUQ?...
December 24, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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houseofreggae.bsky.social
Released in December '81, this mighty 12" by Eek A Mouse is telling the half that is rarely told in Christmas songs.

Precision backing by Roots Radics with Scientist at the mixing desk...

youtu.be/MsBBhSSSjqA?...

#reggae #reggaesky #vinylsky #vinyl #musicsky
12" of Eek A Mouse - Christmas A Come on Greensleeves label. Released in 1981. Produced by Linval Thompson. Backed by Roots Radics. Mixed by Scientist at Channel One.
December 20, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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fortpointer.bsky.social
Here’s what it looks like from the bridge. In a way, Don got lucky because it didn’t blow out of the Channel..
December 19, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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amlibraryassoc.bsky.social
Libraries bring people together through learning, connection, and belonging. With your support, they can remain places where everyone belongs—today and for generations to come.

Make a year-end gift to support libraries: bit.ly/ForOurLibraries2025.

“In my hometown the library has become my elderly dad’s social lifeline. He visits the library a couple of times a week, checks out large-print books, and reads newspapers he can no longer afford to subscribe to, but the best is simply getting out of the house, going to a place where he feels welcome.” Royce, Southern California Give now to support libraries. American Library Association. For Our Libraries.
December 16, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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eolai.bsky.social
Another west of Ireland #painting. "Connemara Cottage" came from a day cycling in circles in north Connemara up and down hills and onto a beach, looking for roads that didn't exist while making memories that lasted forever. And I kept coming back to this scene. #art #SpeirGhorm #ArtAdventCalendar
Landscape format in painterly acrylics on canvas. View across fields, that dip in the foreground, to a white bungalow sitting above the dip on the flat top with 3 round-peaked pale blue and purple mountains in the distance behind. The house is facing the viewer in shadow with the left gable visible in bright sunshine. The roof is lilac grey with two sky lights. Foreground grass has orange strokes and yellow dots scattered among the lighter greens before a dry stone wall of greys, lilacs, pinks, blues and almost white, while behind it fence posts and a dark wine hedge run across sloping down to the left. Mid-ground yellow-green fields have several scattered loose large rocks, and stone walls sloping down to the left with dark green bushes at the top on the right. Sky is thick pale cloud with very pale blue seeping through and its lower smokey parts touching the rounded mountain peaks. Signed bottom right in the pale grey of the stone walls, Liam Daly
December 13, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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eolai.bsky.social
A #painting for your enjoyment. "Stone Walls, Galway Bay" came from a day I cycled happily into a wonderful world of walls, thinking one day I'll have my own garden and in the middle of it I will build a wall that stands alone serving no function other than being a wall. #SpeirGorm #ArtYear
Landscape format in painterly acrylics on canvas. View across 3 small fields on undulating mounds, enclosed by blue-grey dry-stone walls with two of the walls built over the top of each mound such that they arch horizontally across the painting, and the other two walls going diagonally from the left edge such that overall the walls are in a zig-zag pattern. Inside them is rough green grass ranging from yellow to almost black elements, and the corner of the field in the bottom left is a messy orange. The walls have dark blue shadows between the stones but with larger black shadows in the foreground. Smaller stones are along the top. Beyond is a band of very pale, almost white, water of the bay running the full width of the picture, with on the far side on the left along the horizon a headland of flat pale blue. The sky is deep yellow with loose paler yellow smokey bands to suggest clouds. Signed top right: Liam Daly
March 5, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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Read this: www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...
Becoming a U.S. citizen takes years and involves immigrants acquiring a green card, extensive interviews, background checks, classes and a citizenship test. The naturalization ceremony is the final step to the process, where the oath of allegiance and a citizenship certificate are granted. Immigrants approved to be naturalized went to Faneuil Hall Thursday - known as the country's cradle of liberty - for that long-awaited moment to pledge allegiance to the United States. But instead, as they lined up, some were told by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services officials that they couldn't proceed due to their countries of origin.
December 7, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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wbznewsradio.bsky.social
If a rose can go by any other name and still smell as sweet, then "Little Cambridge," now known as Brighton, can still be just as historic and cool.
WATCH: WBZ NewsRadio's Jeromey Russ Explores "Little Cambridge" | WBZ NewsRadio 1030
If a rose can go by any other name and still smell as sweet, then Little Cambridge, now known as Brighton can still be just as historic and cool.
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December 7, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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ciaraioch.bsky.social
Manannán Mac Lir - son of the sea, ancient warrior, powerful sea god, and member of the Tuatha Dé Danann in Irish mythology - commands a ferocious sea on a stormy day 🌊

Prints are available here: www.ciaraioch.com/artprints/p/...
Illustration of Manannán Mac Lir stretching a hand out over a stormy sea towards a currach. The print is overlaid on a photo of a stormy sea. #Art #BlueskyArt #Ireland #SpéirGorm #SpéirGhorm #TraditionalArt #HandDrawn
December 7, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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irishacw.bsky.social
Mothers who lost sons at the Little Bighorn & on USS Maine; Widows of Antietam & Gettysburg; veterans who lost limbs and narratives of loss and murder. Some of the 720+ stories in the "Yankee Pensioners in Ireland 1845-1905 Interactive Map": storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/4e3d...
Yankee Pensioners in Ireland 1845-1905: An Interactive Map
An interactive map with biographical info and addresses of 700+ women, men and children who received U.S. pensions in 19th century Ireland.
storymaps.arcgis.com
November 30, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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chrismurphyct.bsky.social
This is the scandal. Trump isn’t targeting dangerous people. He’s targeting peaceful immigrants. Almost exclusively.
November 26, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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deardean22.bsky.social
Watch /listen to Boston’s mayor Michelle Wu live her dream..

Playing with Yo Yo Ma.. 🥰
November 23, 2025 at 1:23 AM